What is the meaning of the first P in the acronym for Hypertext Processor, PHP?

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PHP (recursive acronym for PHP: Hypertext Processor) is a widely-used open source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for dynamic web development and can be embedded into HTML...

And that's all I got from the web, W3Schools, Wikipedia, Stack Overflow and even my lecturers at the University.

Can anyone tell me what exactly the P stands for or why it doesn't follow the meaning of PHP and/or why hasn't it been removed?

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J. Stott On BEST ANSWER

It used to stand for Personal Home Page; however, as it grew to be a bit more than a scripting/templating language for simple projects, its meaning was changed to PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. The first 'P' now stands for PHP itself.

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José Antonio Font On

It literally means PHP, it is a recursive acronym in which the actual word is one of the letters.

Just like GNU means: GNU is Not Unix.